Keira Shae

KEIRA SHAE {[email protected]} was born in 1988. Keira grew up in a poverty-stricken family in Provo, Utah and encountered abuse, drugs, prostitution, and family separation in the shadow of the temple and the LDS Church’s flagship university. Shae experienced kindness from an LDS foster family as a teen, which changed the trajectory of her life. Through police records, lifelong journaling, and court documents, she built a narrative for her transcendent true story. After Leonard Cohen’s lyrics, Shae titled her debut memoir How The Light Gets In.

The Nape of the Neck

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

I was scheduled to be naked at ten in the morning on Saturday. This was a conflict with my uber-religious community and my lifetime of body shame. I drove to the studio anyway. The artist…